C002Time and becoming
DTT’s completed present can be interpreted in either a presentist or a growing-block direction. If earlier physical configurations are no longer actual and only their current traces remain, renewal resembles presentism. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C008Time and becoming
A growing block has an ontological orientation: the domain of existing events increases. Presentism has a privileged present but need not describe the past as an accumulating domain. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C014Time and becoming
Discrete presentism could treat only the current completed stage as actual. A discrete growing block could retain all completed stages while adding a new one. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C020Time and becoming
Presentism and growing-block theories primarily specify the temporal extent of reality. DTT’s generative programme instead asks how determinate states are produced. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C026Time and becoming
Neither presentism nor a growing block selects an ordinary complex or split-complex algebra. A presentist can use real-valued clocks, and a block-growth model can be formulated with a discrete order alone. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C032Time and becoming
Presentism and a growing block differ about the existence of the past, but neither position by itself determines whether microscopic equations have inverse solutions. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C038Time and becoming
A privileged present does not tell a clock how fast to run. Presentism and growing-block theories therefore need ordinary physical clock laws unless they add a mechanism of their own. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C044Time and becoming
Presentism and a growing block commonly appeal to a privileged boundary between what is actual and what is not yet actual. For spatially separated events, relativity makes the physical definition of such a boundary nontrivial. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C050Time and becoming
Presentism can describe a succession of recurring presents, while a growing block can contain many distinct repetitions of a similar event. Neither position requires the entire universe to return to an earlier state. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C056Time and becoming
DTT’s becoming world is close in spirit to theories that distinguish a real present from an unreal future, but presentism and the growing block diverge over completed history. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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